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Sam Worthington options The Last Days of American Crime

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:03:51 -0500

Sam Worthington has optioned Rick Remender's The Last Days of American Crime comic book series, and plans to produce and star in it...

ChiZine Publications to publish multiple versions simultaneously, and take unsolicited submissions

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:35:09 -0500

ChiZine Publications will now be issuing all versions of their books (signed hardcover, trade paperback, and e-book) simultaneously, and also accepting unsolicited submissions...

Mandalay Pictures options Unthinkable

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:53 -0500

Mandalay Pictures optioned Mark Sable's five-issue comic book series Unthinkable, in which a think tank predicting terrorist scenarios is targeted when they start happening...

OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show publishes issue #15

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:45:32 -0500

The fifteenth issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show features fiction by Bradley P. Beaulieu, Orson Scott Card, Geoffrey W. Cole, Ian Creasey, Mary Robinette Kowal, Tom Pendergrass...

Eric Shapiro sells collection to Permuted Press

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:40:42 -0500

Eric Shapiro's Stories for the End of the World will collect three short novels and seven short stories featuring zombies, flooding, a suicidal robot...

500 C2E2 VIP packages on sale 19 November

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:35:37 -0500

The first Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo will be offering only 500 VIP packages (at $200 each) starting 19 November 2010...

V—Five for Fighting—V's "A Bright New Day"

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:30:29 -0500

Getting better. Not enough alien tech, but some nice paranoia, and some legitimate reasons for it. Will it all be enough to hold viewers over the months-long hiatus coming after the next episode?... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)

True Review #73 now available

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:25:23 -0500

The November issue of Andrew Andrews' review 'zine marks a return in a new form on the web, with feature reviews of eleven books plus brief reviews of another dozen, an editorial...

2009 ISFiC Writers Contest Winner

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:50 -0500

Illinois science fiction fan group ISFiC has been hosting a writers contest for two decades. This year's winner was announced at Windycon...

Déjà vu, déjà vu—Stargate Universe's "Time"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:55:00 -0500

A good exploration of time, but the story itself, well… (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)

Win Bill Willingham's new Fables novel, Peter & Max, or the whole series

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:36:00 -0500

Publisher Vertigo Comics and Library Journal are giving away prize packs including Bill Willingham's newest Fables novel, and complete sets of all of them...

Beth Bernobich sells YA novel to Viking

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:13:45 -0500

New-ish author Beth Bernobich's Fox and Phoenix will be her first YA novel, in addition to the three adult novels in the queue at Tor...

Norilana publishes Sword and Sorceress XXIV

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:43 -0500

Norilana latest installment of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology series features stories by Josepha Sherman, Dave Smeds, Cynthia Ward, K.D. Wentworth...

Nominations for the Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:10 -0500

Under the new Nebula Award rules, members of SFWA may nominate up to five works in each category between now and 15 February...

Renovation on-line registration now available

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:28:50 -0500

Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, is now accepting memberships online...